CYB 338 AI Countermeasures for Network Defense

This course focuses on defensive strategies, technologies, and AI-enabled countermeasures used to protect networks from contemporary cyber threats. Students examine intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, endpoint and network monitoring, secure architecture, threat hunting, vulnerability mitigation, and incident escalation. The course emphasizes the use of AI-supported analytics, behavioral detection, automated triage, and network telemetry to identify malicious activity and recommend countermeasures. Students also examine adversarial techniques used to evade AI-enabled defenses and evaluate controls for protecting AI-supported network defense systems from manipulation, poisoning, false positives, and model misuse.